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NFLPA Exec DeMaurice Smith Advocates For Elimination Of NFL Scouting Combine

The NFL killed off the Pro Bowl this year, though not a lot of people particularly missed it. At least, they didn’t miss what the game had already become. Could the NFL Scouting Combine be next? NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith hopes so, he told reporters yesterday. So what is the argument? He proposed a rhetorical question.

Who decided that it was a good idea to take your son and have him exclusively try out for the NFL’s exclusive way of getting into the league — for the most part, unless you’re a free-agent player?”, Josh Weinfuss reported him as saying for ESPN.